TY - BOOK ID - 101942365 TI - Indigenist Mobilization: Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala PY - 2017 SN - 1785333836 1785333828 PB - Berghahn Books DB - UniCat KW - Adivasis KW - Dalits KW - Agricultural laborers KW - Political activity KW - Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha (Organization) KW - Kerala (India) KW - Politics and government. KW - Agricultural workers KW - Farm labor KW - Farm laborers KW - Farm workers KW - Farmhands KW - Farmworkers KW - Employees KW - Depressed classes (South Asia) KW - Harijans KW - Scheduled castes (India) KW - Untouchables KW - Caste KW - Ethnology KW - Aboriginal peoples KW - Aborigines KW - Indigenous populations KW - Native peoples KW - Native races KW - Adivasi Gothra Mahasbha (Organization) KW - AGMS KW - Kerala, India (State) KW - Malankar (India) KW - Malankara (India) KW - Keralam (India) KW - Kīrālā (India) KW - Travancore and Cochin (India) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101942365 AB - In Kerala, political activists with a background in Communism are now instead asserting political demands on the basis of indigenous identity. Why did a notion of indigenous belonging come to replace the discourse of class in subaltern struggles? Indigenist Mobilization answers this question through a detailed ethnographic study of the dynamics between the Communist party and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changing everyday working lives of subaltern groups in Kerala. ER -